How to send transactional emails from WordPress

Transactional emails are messages that are automatically sent after a user performs an action on your website or application. Examples of transactional emails are:

• Password reset emails
• Welcome emails
• Shipping confirmations
• Payment invoices
• Order confirmation emails

If you want to use ShortPixel's hosting service and send transactional emails, you will first need to sign up for a new account with a third-party transactional email provider such as Mailgun, Sendinblue, SendGrid or SparkPost. 

In this tutorial, we will use Sendinblue as an example for the instructions.

Sign up

This step, of course, depends on the service provider you choose. Since we are using Sendinblue, here are the official instructions from their YouTube channel.

Retrieve SMTP settings

Once the account is created, log in and proceed as follows:

1. Click on your name in the top right menu.
2. Choose SMTP & API.
3. Click on SMTP, copy all the information (SMTP Server, Port, Login, Master password) and paste it in a safe place.
   

   

WordPress configuration

Now go to your WordPress dashboard and proceed as follows.

1. Install the Easy WP SMTP plugin.
2. Go to Settings > Easy WP SMTP > SMTP Settings.
3. Copy the SMTP Server field from Sendinblue and paste it into the SMTP Host field.
4. Select SSL/TLS in the Type of Encryption field.
5. Copy the Port field from Sendinblue and paste it into the SMTP Port field.
6. Copy the Login field from Sendinblue and paste it into the SMTP Username field.
7. Copy the Master password field from Sendinblue and paste it into the SMTP Password field.
8. Customize the rest of the fields according to your needs